Eugenius

Borrowed from Latin Eugenius, from Ancient Greek Εὐγένιος (Eugénios). Doublet of Eugene and Yevgeny.

Eugenius

1. A male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek]
   • 1982 February 4, Fred Pearce, “The end of the pier show”, in New Scientist, volume 93, number 1291, pages 298–299:

     Most were built using screw-piles and 10 of them were designed by the great leader of his craft Eugenius Birch.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eu̯ˈɡe.ni.us/, [ɛu̯ˈɡɛniʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eu̯ˈd͡ʒe.ni.us/, [eu̯ˈd͡ʒɛːnius]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Εὐγένιος (Eugénios), from εὐγενής (eugenḗs, “well-born”) + -ιος (-ios, adjective suffix).

Eugenius m (genitive Eugeniī); second declension

1. A Roman cognomen and later a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Eugene

Second-declension noun.

• eugenēus

Borrowed from Old Welsh Eugein, from Proto-Brythonic *Awɨɣėn.

Eugenius m (genitive Eugeniī); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin) A male given name from Old Welsh, equivalent to English Owen or Welsh Owain
   • c. 1125, William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum; republished as William Stubbs, editor, Willelmi Malmesbiriensis Monachi De Gestis Regum Anglorum Libri Quinque […], volume 1, 1887, page 147:

     Fugit tunc Analafus filius Sihctrici Hiberniam, et Godefridus frater ejus Scotiam; subsecuti sunt e vestigio regales, missi ad Constantinum regem Scottorum et Eugenium regem Cumbrorum, transfugam eum denuntiatione belli repetentes.

     Anlaf son of Sitric thereupon fled to Ireland, and his brother Gofraid to Scotland; royal messengers sent to Constantine the king of the Scots and Owain king of the Cumbrians followed in his footsteps, demanding the return of the fugitive under threat of war.

Second-declension noun.

• Eugenius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette